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...When Premier Suleyman Demirel took office in November, he warned his countrymen to brace themselves for a long, hard winter. Last week Turkey was quite literally shivering through one of the worst cold spells in 30 years. Largely because of a lack of foreign exchange, the country had virtually run out of fuel oil, and thousands of homes and offices were without heat. As if that were not suffering enough, Demirel chose the moment to introduce draconian new fiscal measures, which one Western diplomat in Ankara called "the most significant economic step taken in Turkey since World...
...Canadians share your outrage and shock over events in Iran and are utterly opposed to the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union," the Hon. William G. Davis, premier of Ontario, told an audience of 300 at the Kennedy School Forum yesterday afternoon...
Canada supports American plans to boycott the Olympics and contain Soviet expansionism, the long-time Conservative premier of Canada's largest province said, adding that "Canadians and Americans stand together in their rejection of international lawlessness and the trampling of individual and collective freedom...
...think we are headed for a war," the former envoy to Peking said, but added that Soviet Premier Leonid I. Breznhev "has a peculiar way of showing he wants detente...
...Israelis are correct in thinking that Jimmy Carter is determined to make headway this year on the Palestinian issue. "There is a countdown to May," says an aide to Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. Translation: If Carter has emerged by that time as the all-but-certain Democratic presidential candidate, he will be in a position to devote a lot of time this summer to the Middle East. Both the Israelis and the Egyptians believe that Carter would invite Sadat and Begin to another summit at that time for a round of intensive-and very tough-negotiations on the autonomy impasse...